We can explain away our fascination with killers and psychopaths onscreen as a desire to justify wickedness. These characters are usually motivated by trauma, sex, or an unnamed deep, dark desire. Our voyeurism compels us to keep watching to try to see if this movie, this series, this podcast will unlock something that will help us understand. Just think of how many different versions of Ted Bundy we’ve seen, all trying to uncover how someone could simultaneously be hot and a killer. When an explanation, a villain origin story, is lacking, it’s so much more perverse. It opens up the terrifying
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